Lil Wayne sets San Diego return

The hip-hop star, now out of the hospital following several seizures, is mounting a national tour that will stop in San Diego in late August

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2013 file photo, recording artist Lil Wayne meets fans and celebrates his contemporary street wear apparel brand TRUKFIT at his hometown Macy's, in New Orleans. Lil Wayne is out of the hospital, according to his Young Money associate Mack Maine. Mack Maine told his Twitter followers on Monday night, March 18, 2013 that the multiplatinum rapper had left Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, where he had been hospitalized since last week. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2013 file photo, recording artist Lil Wayne meets fans and celebrates his contemporary street wear apparel brand TRUKFIT at his hometown Macy's, in New Orleans. Lil Wayne is out of the hospital, according to his Young Money associate Mack Maine. Mack Maine told his Twitter followers on Monday night, March 18, 2013 that the multiplatinum rapper had left Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, where he had been hospitalized since last week. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
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Barely a week after he was released from a Santa Monica hospital, after a series of seizures that had some fans fearing for his life, hip-hop superstar Lil Wayne has announced a 40-city U.S. summer concert trek. Billed as "America's Most Wanted Music Festival 2013," the tour will include an Aug. 27 San Diego stop at Sleep Train Amphitheatre (the venue formerly known as Chula Vista's Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre and, before that, Coors Amphitheatre). T.I. and Future will open the show.

The coast-to-coast concert trek is in support of Lil Wayne's new album, "I Am Not A Human Being II," which features guest appearances by Future, Drake, current "American Idol" host Nicki Minaj and others. This will mark the second consecutive tour by Lil Wayne (born: Dwayne Michael Carter) to stop at the Chula Vista venue, where he also performed in 2011.

As of this writing, neither the tour nor the San Diego concert appears on the web sites for Sleep Train Amphitheatre or Ticketmaster. However, all of the tour dates are posted on the web site for Lil Wayne's record company, Young Money.

No prices have been announced yet, and while some ticket will go on sale April 5, it is currently unclear which cities that date applies to. The on-sale will be preceded by a pre-sale and VIP ticket package sales for members of Lil Wayne's fan club.

The upcoming tour comes following a tumultuous several years for New Orleans native Lil Wayne, who is fondly known by fans as "Weezy".

In early 2010, he was sentenced to a year in jail in New York City for having a loaded gun on his tour bus in 2007. he also pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a dangerous drug. He ended up serving eight months at Rikers Island, a stint that seemed to boost his street cred with many fans.

Last month, Lil Wayne created national controversy with his rapping on a purportedly leaked and "unauthorized re-mix" of "Karate Chop, a song by Future, that has since been pulled by Epic Records. Wayne's rap segment included an extremely profane and offensive reference to Emmett Till, a black Mississippi teenager who was brutally tortured and murdered in 1955 by a group of white men, who claimed the 14-year-old had whistled at a white woman. Till's murder helped spark the subsequent Civil Rights movement and inspired the stirring Bob Dylan song "The Death of Emmett Till."

In an interview with BET last month, Wonder said: "You can’t equate that to Emmett Till. You just cannot do that. … I think you got to have someone around you that – even if they are the same age or older – is wiser to say, 'Yo, that's not happening. Don’t do that.' Sometimes people have to put themselves in the place of people who they are talking about. Imagine if that happened to your mother, brother, daughter or your son. How would you feel? Have some discernment before we say certain things. That goes for me or any other (song) writer."